Laziness Quotes
Weariness can snore upon the flint when resting sloth finds the down pillow hard.
The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy, and envy.
Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments.
Those who do the least themselves are always the severest critics upon the noble achievements of others.
Probably 90 percent of our life decisions are powered by the twin engines of inertia and laziness.
Flee laziness which while it produces an immediate delight, ends in the sorrow of repentance. And know that nature without exercise is a seed shut up in the pod, and art without practice is nothing.
Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.
Rising early and scorning laziness, remaining calm in time of strife, faultless in conduct and clever in actions. One like this will be praised.
Laziness is the one common deficiency in mankind that blocks the establishment of a perfect world in which everyone leads a happy life.
When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.
I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.
Being busy is a form of laziness - lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.
Laziness begat wearisomeness, and this put men in quest of diversions, play and company, on which however it is a constant attendant; he who works hard, has enough to do with himself otherwise.
Contentment is a kind of moral laziness; if there wasn't anything but contentment in his world, man wouldn't be any more of a success than an angleworm is
I'd love sloth. I wish sloth would come home and visit me once in a while. I don't consider laziness a sin at all.
Hard work - I mean, does anybody use that term anymore? Laziness doesn't fly. It's all in the practice. It does take work and it ain't easy - but man, the rewards!
He that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night.
Beware of those who say: "I know this too well to be able to express it." For if they cannot do so, this is because they don't know it or because out of laziness they stopped at the outer crust.
Laziness is contagious just like hard work is. I didn't give myself an opportunity to be lazy and I didn't surround myself with people who are lazy.
I believe email-based status reports are the clearest and best signs of managerial incompetence and laziness.
It is not the dream of what you're feeling laziness, if not, the sleep of exhaustion.
I think that laziness in many ways is the human condition, and that's what has led us to this place where, as we've developed technology.
Probably the most honest "self-made person" ever was the one we heard say: "I got to the top the hard way - fighting my own laziness and ignorance every step of the way."
Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness, but I don't argue with it - especially as I am rarely in a position to prove that it is mistaken. Negative proof is usually impossible.
You get used to being lazy doing films, but classical theatre's going to finish me off.
But poverty, with most who whimper forth Their long complaints, is self-inflicted woe; The effect of laziness, or sottish write.
There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor, that summer reading belongs.
